The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2023 Curci Ph.D. Scholars. The Curci Foundation worked with the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington, each of which selected incoming Ph.D. students in Life Sciences to receive funding to assist with tuition and living expenses.
University of California Berkeley
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Simran Bawa
Department: Integrative Biology
Home country: United States
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Eway Cai
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China
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Xiuyuan Cheng
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China
Jason Hu
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Canada
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Dorra Jedoui
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Tunisia
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Juliana Lee
Home country: Canada
University of California San Diego
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Wanning Cui
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China
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Deborah Kutner
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Brazil
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Shuozhi Liu
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China
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Weronika Matysik
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Poland
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SungWoo Park
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: South Korea
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Abhinaya Pathak
Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
Home country: Nepal
University of California San Francisco
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Brenda Ametepe
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: Togo, West Africa
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Haoyu Fan
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Home country: China
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Tayma Handal
Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Home country: Palestine
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Nikhita Kirthivasan
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Home country: India
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Chloe Kong
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: South Korea
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Chang Liu
Department: Tetrad
Home country: China/United States
University of Colorado Boulder
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Oscar Cordova
Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico
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Sofi Leon Gonzalez
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico
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Norah Nyangau
Department: Integrative Physiology
Home country: Kenya
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Coralie Phanord
Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Home country: Haiti
Negar Rahimi
Department: Physiology
Home country: Iran
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Sen Wang
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: China
University of Utah
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Tara Buzinski
Department: Biological Chemistry
Home country: United States
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Nicole Lacey
Department: Mathematics
Home country: United States
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Hannah Meier
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Home country: Germany
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Laurence Saint Pierre
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: France
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Brooklyn Vargas
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: United States
Chuang Zhang
Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
Home country: China
University of Washington
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Richmond Kwane Boateng
Department: Biochemistry
Home country: Ghana
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Sophia Chioma Chima
Department: Global Health
Home county: Nigeria
Yufei Gao
Department: Bioengineering
Home county: China
Zeidy Garcia
Department: Microbiology
Home country: Mexico
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Olivia Waltner
Department: Genome Sciences
Home country: United States
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Ruowei Zhu
Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Home county: China